The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

ing member of the Kentucky legislature.
GRANTS birthday was observed last week
in various places, the most notable demon
STATIONS being made in Pittsburg, Pa,
Washington, and Hartford, CT.
A wATER-spouT in West Peterboro, N.
H., Friday, damaged Che town greatly.
Rocks weighing two tons were washed
| from the hillside into the streets.
Mr.. BLAINE and family arrived home
| from their western trip Thursday, having
been absent five weeks. Mr.. Blaine has
nearly completed his convalescence
No more liquor licenses will be issued in
Fall River, Mass, for another year The
city loses 100000 in revenue and three
hundred shops are made vacant thereby.
In the legislative investigation into the
| Brooklyn city government the fact was
brought out that over $4,000 was raised to
get an electric light charter from the alder
men.
ALL the persons charged with plotting
against the life of the Gar at st. Peters
burg have been found guilty. Seven were
sentenced to death and the remainder to
| life servitude.
The water in Montreal is still slowly re-
cedng. Considerable damage was done at
Lamberts, Longueil, Bucherville, Varen-
mes, Vercherres, Sorel, Three Rivers, Ber-
thier and other places.
A DISPATCH from Perth, Western Aus
tralia, says: 4" A hurricane swept the north
east coast the ODD ult. The pearl fishing fleet,
numbering forty boats, was destroyed and
$50 persons perished."
JAY GOULD is reported to have bought
| eighty-five acres of land near st. Louis,
where he will build big industrial school,
shops and cottages, forming a town of me-
chanics like Pullman, Ill.
A BAD fire occurred in Allegheny City,
Pa, owing to the escape of natural gas.
! fnNa1 tn1
several Others were injured by jumping
from the burning building.
AN English syndicate has just bought
rich silver mine in Mexico, now worked by
Aguayas Brothers, for three and half
millions. Senator Hearst of California
offered two millions for it recently.
AT Putnam, CT, Mrs. Henry Lureau,
aged about thirty, Peter Brush, aged thir-
| teen, and Sarah McEvety, aged twelve,
while rowing in boat after hat Saturday,
were carried over Cargill falls and drowned.
A DISPATCH from Cooktown, Australia
| announces that the steamer Benton " of
| Singapore was sunk in collision with
bark off the Island of Formosa and $50 per-
sons were drowned. No Europeans were
| lost.
CHIEF OF POLICE Brown of Madison, n.
j., having been made the happy father of
| tripets-two boys and a gir-has named
! them for the President and wife, thus: Lee
ander Cleveland John Grover and Leonora
| Frances.
JULIA f. FORREST was installed as a dea-
coness in ST. George Episcopal church, New
York, Sunday, by Bishop Potter She is the
! first deaconess admitted to the church in
400 years, and the first ever created in
! America.
JOHN BRIGHT writes regarding the pend
ing repressive measures in parliament that
what he thought needful in 1SS1-S2 he
thinks needful now, and he will not con-
denim the bill because it was introduced by
conservatives.
THE directors of the Northern railroad
New Hampshire, have leased that corpora
ton, subject to the approval of the stock
holders, to the Boston & Maine railroad
through the Boston & Lowell for term of
ninety-nine years.
THE heavy rain of Friday caused freshets
all over New England. The worst, perhaps,
were in Maine, and the Kennebec and Penob-
scot rivers were higher than at any time
for sixteen years. Two million logs were
| lost by the bursting of booms at Fairfield,
Maine.
JOHN DALTON, a German youth of twenty
who works in printing-office in New York
city, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge at a
point near the pier on the New York side
He was picked up apparently unhurt by the
crew of a passing lighter, which kept on its
way down the bay.
JAY AND LEE MOORE, aged fourteen and
| twelve, and Ira and BERTHE Hotchkiss, aged
eleven and eight, sons of well-tO-do farmers
of South Valley Cattaraugus county, n Y,
Saturday went sailing in a skiff on the
Allegheny river. The quick current cap
sized the boat and all were drowned.
FIFTEEN hundred newspaper men of Bos-
ton and vicinity were given a reception
Sunday in the new building of the Boston
Globe by the proprietors and editors of that
journal. Monday morning the Globe was
issued from the new building, with a COM
plete new outfit from the composing-room
to press-rooms.
DIR. w. T. NoRTHRUP, a prominent phys-
clan at Haverhil, Scioto county, Ohio,
was murdered Wednesday by Thomas Nc
Coy, saloon-keeper, and his brother AL
! fred, the postmaster at Haverhill aided by
J the two sons of Alfred Mccoy. DIR. North
rup had incurred the displeasure of the Nc
COys by being active in favor of local option.
A STORM last week was of exceptional
! violence in Moravia and Galicia Twenty
| railway workmen sought shelter in build
! ing, which was struck by lightning, and two
! were killed and the others rendered deaf.
| Twenty-three peasants were crossing the
river Sam during the Storm when the boat
upset and the greater number were drowned.
A YOUNG lady, a stitcher in one of the shoe
factories in Gardiner, Me-, preferred not to
join the Knights of Labor, when an assem-
bly, was started in that town, and refused
to pay an assessment which was lately
levied upon her by the organization. The
Knights thereupon notified the management
| that they would stop work unless the young
woman was discharged, and the manage
ment yielded to the demand and turned
her adrift.